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Pacquiao wins unanimous decision
Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Fighting on the star, Manny Pacquiao showed once again why he is the star. With the biggest fight crowd in the U.S. in 17 years cheering him on at Cowboys Stadium, Pacquiao dominated a strangely passive Joshua Clottey from the opening bell Saturday night to retain his welterweight title and cement... »
Clottey, trainer find resolve as subs
By Dan Rafael Joshua Clottey was in his native Ghana in January not even thinking about boxing when he got the call from manager Vinny Scolpino. The Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. negotiations had imploded, and Pacquiao needed an opponent to face. Top Rank, which promotes Pacquiao and Clottey, was offering Clottey, a former welterweight titlist, the... »
Hunter says black Latino players are ‘impostors’
By JANIE McCAULEY, AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP)—Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter called black Latino baseball players “impostors” when it comes to the appearance of the number of African-Americans in the major leagues. Hunter’s comments were made two weeks ago in one of a series of USA Today roundtables about baseball and published in... »
Wife of 76ers’ Iverson files for divorce
ATLANTA (AP)—Allen Iverson’s wife filed for divorce the same day the Philadelphia 76ers announced that the All-Star guard would not return for the rest of the season. Tawanna Iverson said their 8 1/2 -year marriage is “irretrievably broken,” in papers filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court. She asks for full custody of the couple’s... »
Tony Kornheiser SUSPENDED For Hannah Storm Comments
ESPN has suspended Tony Kornheiser “for some time” over comments he made about Hannah Storm’s wardrobe. On his radio show last week, Kornheiser mocked Storm for her “horrifying, horrifying outfit” on ESPN’s “Sportscenter.” Kornheiser hosts “Pardon the Interruption” on the sports network. His comments: “Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go... »
Chargers release Tomlinson after 9 years (AP)
By BERNIE WILSON, AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP)—LaDainian Tomlinson was released Monday by the San Diego Chargers, ending a brilliant nine-year run in which he became one of the NFL’s greatest running backs. The move had been expected for some time. Tomlinson, who turned 30 last summer, was injured early in the 2009 season... »
Tiger Woods to end months of silence on Friday
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer MARANA, Arizona (AP)—Tiger Woods will speak publicly Friday for the first time since his bizarre, middle-of-the-night car accident, beginning what his agent called “the process of making amends” for the sex scandal that sent him into hiding for three months. “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a... »
IOC confirms Olympic luger dies after crash
By Stephen Wilson, Ap Sports Writer VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A men’s Olympic luger from the country of Georgia died Friday after a high-speed crash on a track that is the world’s fastest and has raised safety concerns among competitors. A tearful IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony... »
Made-in-Jamaica Brown cool with Canada
By AFP WHISTLER, Canada (AFP) – It’s a long way from sun-kissed May Pen, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, to the icy surrounds of the Olympic Games’ Whistler Sliding Centre high up in the mountains above Vancouver. But Lascelles Brown’s odyssey is second to nobody. That’s because bobsledder Brown is out to become the first Jamaican to win a... »
The NBA’s Locker-Room Nerds
By HANNAH KARP Russian forward Andrei Kirilenko of the Utah Jazz and his Ukranian teammate, Kyrylo Fesenko, don’t always get along. In fact, they can often be heard screaming at each other in the locker room. But the nature of these arguments isn’t what you’d expect from a pair of millionaire athletes: Their fights usually center... »
